Remove dependency on "react-dom"

[saviocmc]

Fixes get-convex/convex-backend#74

Currently, the react client depends directly on the react-dom package, specifically the unstable_batchedUpdates implementation. This makes it impossible to use it on react-native only projects (with no react-dom installed).

react-native also implements this method, but it is obsolete since the react 18 release, with the implementation of Automatic batching (explained in more details here).

A fix for this could be to test if the client is running react 17 and try o import unstable_batchedUpdates from either react-dom or react-native, but as discussed in the issue, a simpler solution could be to drop react 17 support, removing the need to use unstable_batchedUpdates.

This PR introduces these changes:

• Remove react-dom from the peer dependencies
• Remove version 17 as a valid peer dependency for react
• Remove the use the unstable_batchedUpdates in the react client transition method.

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[thomasballinger]

Looks good, I didn't realize how little we needed this

[saviocmc]

Looks good, I didn't realize how little we needed this

The only place I could find the react-dom referenced in the codebase was the unstable_batchedUpdates call, so it is safe to remove on react ^18 and ^19.

Testing further, I just added react-dom again in devDependencies only because it is a peer dependency of @auth0/auth0-react (that is a dev dependency of the convex package) in order to fix package resolution, but it should not impact anything.

[thomasballinger]

thanks, yeah I did the same. Thank you @saviocmc! This is in ab06d42, and will be announced in the next release. I'll do one soon, likely this week.